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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Let the LEI Games Begin

This week we’re publishing our long-awaited special report on the LEI: ‘What the Global Legal Entity Identifier Will Mean for Your Firm’. Frankly, it’s purpose is to do what it says on the tin: to help you figure out what you need to do about the most talked about development after the iPhone 5 (I…

Netik Transformation into CoreOne Leaves Little of the EDM Specialist at Large

Last week’s formal introduction of PrimeOne Solutions, a hosted prime brokerage service within the CoreOne Technologies group, marks the end of the first wave of CoreOne development and the final resting place of Netik, the enterprise date management company that was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008 and rebranded as CoreOne…

Verdande, Nastel Team for CBR-Based Operational Analytics

Verdande Technology and Nastel Technologies have teamed up to combine their case-based reasoning (CBR) and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, respectively, to provide financial services organisations with predictive analytics to reduce system outages and to remain compliant with regulatory reporting. CBR allows for an adaptive “human” approach to problem solving that analyses data patterns in…

Friends Life Investments Start-up Implements Markit EDM Platform

Markit has made one of its first and fastest implementations of the enterprise data management (EDM) platform it acquired with Cadis Software back in June at Friends Life Investments, a start-up asset manager within Friends Life Group. Conversation between Friends Life Investments and potential technology providers started about six months ago ahead of a rigorous…

Market Participants Focus on the Cost, Adoption and Long-Term Success of the LEI

Issues of cost, adoption and long-term success dominated a debate on the legal entity identifier (LEI) held in London last week. The debate on ‘The Implications of Building a Global Legal Entity Identifier’ – organised by Interactive Data and Goodacre – featured speakers from DTCC, HSBC Securities, JP Morgan and Interactive Data. Mark Davies, vice…

The LEI Standard: Universal Acceptance

By Bill Meenaghan, Global Product Manager, Omgeo ALERT These are interesting times for the reference data industry. Ambitions for a universal standard to quickly and easily identify the legal entities of financial institutions globally may, at one time, have been considered over-ambitious. The global coordination and project management required to establish a universal standard –…

OFR’s Blaszkowsky Challenges Industry to Make Data Fit for Purpose

David Blaszkowsky, senior policy advisor at the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), has challenged perceptions of data management in financial markets, saying data is not a conundrum but a business problem that can be tackled in a way that other industries have tackled problems using a rigorous and judicious approach. Speaking at this week’s…

Interactive Data Joins the Growing Crowd of Solvency II Solution Suppliers

Interactive Data pitches into the Solvency II market today with a service based on existing technology plus one data element sourced from DTCC’s Avox. The company’s Solvency II Service is available immediately to help insurance companies, asset managers and fund administrators ready themselves for the first Solvency II deadline of January 1, 2013. By this…

Reference Data Management Takes Center Stage

By Sol Zlotchenko, VP Product Management, Paladyne Systems. Market developments and a host of major regulatory initiatives are forcing the arcane world of reference data into the spotlight. Reference data drives all investment firms’ activities. As Accenture points out, accurate reference and market data are essential for effective investment decisions, trade execution, securities pricing, portfolio…

MIK Lures Data Management Clients with Free Form PF Filing Software

No such thing as a free app? Probably not, but MIK Fund Solutions comes close with the offer of free-of-charge software for Form PF filing. The catch is simple, if users like the software, MIK hopes they will be interested in licensing its data management platform. According to Marshall Safer, co-founder and chief operating officer…